Stampeders wide receiver Nik Lewis celebrates a play against the Roughriders during the CFL West Division semifinal game at McMahon Stadium in Calgary, Alta., Nov. 11, 2012. (LYLE ASPINALL/Calgary Sun)

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Nobody would have been more upset at the sheer stupidity exhibited by Nik Lewis on Twitter Monday than ol' Huf.

Hours after the Calgary Stampeders GM/head coach tried to clean up the mess his quarterback, Drew Tate, made with his flippant suggestion he misremembered the first half in Sunday's win Lewis takes to Twitter with this doozy:

"I just bought OJ's gloves on eBay. Now all I need is a white girl named Nicole."

He added, complete with grammatical error: #MaybeALittleToFar

Indeed, way too far -- especially at a time when the head coach, receiver and the rest of the team should be focused on the biggest game of the year: Sunday's CFL West final against the host B.C. Lions (2:30 p.m., TSN/QR77). Instead, Wednesday's post-practice interviews will revolve around Lewis, who will almost certainly be told by Hufnagel to make himself scarce.

Dissecting why the tweet is so inappropriate would be as ridiculous as the very notion of thinking it would be OK to joke about it on Twitter in the first place.

But as if the ignorance of the tweet isn't apparent enough, Lewis' shockingly poor attempt at humour comes with a major flaw in the "joke" anyway: OJ's gloves aren't for sale. The knife he allegedly used to kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman is the item up for sale, according to a source talking to the National Enquirer last month.

Either way, the tweet has since made like Kato Kaelin and disappeared.

"The tweet was deemed inappropriate, and it has been erased," said a Stampeders spokesperson.

Meanwhile, every member of the BC Lions arrived at practice Monday to find photocopies of Lewis' post-game preening and win guarantee in their stalls.

Just what every coach wants.

As Dave Dickenson joked Monday when it was suggested his generic responses were getting us media hacks nowhere, "we have a rule - no good quotes during the playoffs."

It's a credo that rings particularly true under Hufnagel who was NFLized from 1999 to 2006 only to return to the CFL with the same institutional mentality that earned the NFL the No Fun League tag. All business, he likes things kept in house.

Stamps players are reminded with regularity not to address certain issues with the media or offer up anything that could give the opposition fuel or bring the organization into disrepute. Imagine, then, his fury when Jon Cornish mooned the Saskatcehwan Roughriders fans during a regular-season game.

Or when he heard of Lewis' latest misstep.

The marriage between Lewis and Hufnagel has to be a particularly complex one, as the veteran receiver is by far the biggest character the Stamps organization has. He sells tickets and helps win games as the team's most consistent star, but he's also a ticking time-bomb.

No one likes being in the media more than Lewis, and even if his content is, at times, nonsense, it's often entertaining.

The Stamps don't have many household names like Lewis -- and that's the way Huf likes it.

Admittedly, the man who used to parade around under alter-egos has toned down his act somewhat the last handful of years to let his brilliance on the field speak for itself.

But old habits die hard.

Once again he's drawn the ire of his head coach, his teammates and the media.

No coach enjoys addressing the actions of players who have said or done things outside the lines that defy logic.

Lewis' bad attempt to be funny comes on the heels of a gaffe on Sportsnet 960, where Dean Molberg said he hoped the Roughriders' plane crashed before last week's semifinal.

Lewis was well aware of the controversy and suspension that ensued, making it even worse he tried unsuccessfully to straddle a line between humour and bad taste.

A league fine is inevitable, and a team suspension is an outside possibility.

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